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Week of December 11

Cell and Developmental Biology

Molecular cartography uncovers evolutionary and microenvironmental dynamics in sporadic colorectal tumors. Cell.

Cody Heiser*, Alan Simmons, Frank Revetta, Eliot McKinley, Marisol Ramirez-Solano, Jiawei Wang, Harsimran Kaur, Justin Shao, Gregory Ayers, Yu Wang, Sarah Glass, Naila Tasneem, Zhengyi Chen, William Kim, Andrea Rolong, Bob Chen, Paige Vega, Nicholas Markham, Nabil Saleh, Simon Vandekar, Angela Jones, Kay Washington, Joseph Roland, Qi Liu, Martha Shrubsole, Robert Coffey*, Ken Lau.
Advances in imaging mass spectrometry for biomedical and clinical research. TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry.

Katerina Djambazova*, Jacqueline Van Ardenne, Jeffrey Spraggins.

Molecular Physiology and Biophysics

Epinephrine inhibits PI3Kα via the Hippo kinases. Cell Reports.
Ting-Yu Lin (Weill Cornell Medicine)*, Louise Lantier, Owen McGuinness.
Prostein expression on circulating tumor cells as a prognostic marker in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer. Prostate Cancer.
Zhenchao Zhang (Thomas Jefferson University)*, Bingshan Li.
Forced Abstinence from Volitional Ethanol Intake Drives a Vulnerable Period of Hyperexcitability in BNST-Projecting Insular Cortex Neurons. The Journal of Neuroscience.
Anne Taylor*, Danielle Adank, Phoebe Young, Yizhen Quan, Brett Nabit, Danny Winder*.
Recognizing and Addressing Environmental Microaggressions, Know-Your-Place Aggression, Peer Mediocrity, and Code-Switching in STEMM. Frontiers in Education.
Kit Neikirk*, Andrea Marshall, Antentor Hinton Jr.*

Pharmacology

Activation of metabotropic glutamate receptor 3 modulates thalamo-accumbal transmission and rescues schizophrenia-like physiological and behavioral deficits. Biological Psychiatry.
Shalini Dogra*, Caleb Aguayo, Zixiu Xiang, Jason Putnam, Joshua Smith, Craig Lindsley, Colleen Niswender, Jeffrey Conn*.

Other Biomedical Basic Sciences Papers

Mesolimbic neural response dynamics predict future individual alcohol drinking in mice. Biological Psychiatry.
Sarah Montgomery (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai)*, Erin Calipari.
Turicibacterales protect mice from severe Citrobacter rodentium infection. Infection and Immunity.
Kristen Hoek*, Kathleen McClanahan, Yvonne Latour, Nicolas Shealy, Blanca Piazuelo, Mariana Byndloss, Keith Wilson, Danyvid Olivares-Villagómez*.

Highlighted in the VUMC Reporter.
Modulation of hippocampal activity in schizophrenia with levetiracetam: a randomized, double-blind, cross-over, placebo-controlled trial. Neuropsychopharmacology.
Maxwell Roeske*, Maureen McHugo, Baxter Rogers, Kristan Armstrong, Suzanne Avery, Manus Donahue, Stephan Heckers.
Remodeling of the gastric environment in Helicobacter pylori-induced atrophic gastritis. mSystems.
Jennifer Shuman*, Aung Soe Lin, Mandy Westland, Kaeli Bryant, Blanca Piazuelo, Michelle Reyzer, Audra Judd, Hayes McDonald, Mark McClain, Kevin Schey, Holly Algood, Timothy Cover*.
Genetic risk converges on regulatory networks mediating early type 2 diabetes. Nature.
John Walker*, Diane Saunders*, Vivek Rai*, Hung-Hsin Chen, Chunhua Dai, Yasminye Pettway, Alexander Hopkirk, Conrad Reihsmann, Shristi Shrestha, Lauren Petty, Jordan Wright, Radhika Aramandla, Greg Poffenberger, Regina Jenkins, Shaojun Mei, Nathaniel Hart, Sharon Phillips, Hakmook Kang, Jennifer Below, The HPAP Consortium, Alvin Powers*, Marcela Brissova*.

Highlighted in the VUMC Reporter.
Expression of SARS-CoV-2 Nonstructural Proteins 3 and 4 Can Tune the Unfolded Protein Response in Cell Culture. Journal of Proteome Research.
Jonathan Davies*, Athira Sivadas, Brynn Roman, Lars Plate*.

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